Spansberg

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Spansberg
City of Gröditz
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 12 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 93 m
Residents : 345  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Incorporated into: Nauwalde
Postal code : 01609
Area code : 035263

Spansberg is a district of the Saxon city ​​of Gröditz in the district of Meißen . It is located about one kilometer west of Nauwalde near the border with Brandenburg . The large pond is located south of Spansberg . In the west of the village the state road 89 runs in a north-south direction from Zeithain to Bad Liebenwerda .

history

Northwest view of the church (1914)

The street perch village on Gewannflur was part of the Grossenhain care in 1406 . The basic rule exercised in 1551, the manor Frauenhain out, from 1696 the manor Tiefenau. In 1555 there was a school and a church in Spansberg. The village burned down in the Thirty Years War . In 1648, of the originally existing 21 hoppers, 7 gardeners and 2 cottagers, as a result of the war in Spansberg, only two hoppers and one gardener were left who had started small. After 1696 the place belonged to the office of Großenhain. Between 1856 and 1875 Spansberg belonged to the Grossenhain court office and then to the Grossenhain administration . In 1900 the size of the town marker was 718 hectares . In 1925 there were 321 Evangelical Lutheran citizens in Spansberg. In 1952, Spansberg became part of the Riesa district, which was formed from the administration as an independent municipality . The independence of the place ended on January 1st 1994 when Spansberg, Nieska and Nauwalde merged to form the new municipality of Nauwalde. In the same year, the district of Riesa became part of the newly formed district of Riesa-Großenhain , which on August 1, 2008 became part of the new district of Meißen formed by the district reform of Saxony in 2008 .

Spansberg has been part of the city of Gröditz since January 1, 2013.

Development of the population

year population
1551 28 obsessed man
1764 30 possessed men, 7 cottagers , 24½ hooves
1834 265
1871 326
year population
1890 308
1910 329
1925 325
1939 318
year population
1946 466
1950 449
1964 353
1990 370

Place name forms

The spelling of the place Spansberg was mentioned historically differently:

  • 1284: in Spansbrugge
  • 1384: Spansbrcke
  • 1395: Sparnbrucke
  • 1406: Spanszbrugke
  • 1495: Spanspruck
  • 1498: Spanssberg
  • 1507: Spangesberg
  • 1540: Spansdorff
  • 1791: Spansberg

Culture and sights

Some cultural monuments are listed in the local list of monuments. The village church of Spansberg is the most striking architectural monument of the place. This structure was built in the 17th century using parts of a previous medieval building that once existed here. Inside the plastered quarry stone building there is a baroque pulpit altar from the 18th century and an organ created in 1922 by Bad Liebenwerda master organ builder Arno Voigt .

In addition, some historical buildings in the village are under monument protection. In addition to a few houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, these include the former village school built in 1895, a mill building and a transformer house built at the beginning of the 20th century.

Other memorials are a memorial for the fallen in the First World War villagers of Spansberg and a memorial, which commemorates a balloon crash in October 1912.

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Spansberg. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 37. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1914, p. 382.

Web links

Commons : Spansberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Spansberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Notes and individual references

  1. Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete local dictionary. 33., revised. and exp. Ed. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027420-2 , p. 1303. Online at Google Books
  2. Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  3. a b c Spansberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  4. George Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Saxony I . 2nd Edition. 1996, ISBN 978-3-422-03043-5 , pp. 807 .
  5. a b c List of monuments of the State of Saxony , accessed on September 15, 2017.
  6. The Spansberg village church on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain , accessed on September 23, 2017.
  7. Data sheet of the Spansberg organ on the homepage of the church district Meißen-Großenhain, accessed on October 3, 2017 (PDF).